Hebrew literature
A kinship between the artist and the outlaw.
The latest novel by Amos Oz, Israel’s best-known writer, is ostensibly an allegory about both the state of Israel and the betrayal of Jesus. What’s it actually about?
Why did the great Micha Yosef Berdichevsky, who called on Jews to take personal responsibility for Zionism, never settle in or even visit Palestine?
The original misunderstood and lonely poet.
An author who upended his own parables.
Aḥad Ha’am on Zionism and Israel.
A member of the Rothschild family finds himself in a small shtetl for the Sabbath.
S. Y. Agnon in English.
Elsewhere than Zion, said the greatest Hebrew poet of the 19th century—until he changed his mind, paving the way for others.
The death of his brother in 1041 moved Shmuel Hanagid, one of Jewish history’s most extraordinary figures, to write nineteen piercing poems charting the rise and fall of his grief.
The enigma of Avraham Ḥalfi.
“The Etrog,” newly rendered into English.